Violet-Orange by Vasily Kandinsky, 1935 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137587

Paul Muni in "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" - BOTD

Anna Karina & Jean-Luc Godard by Raymond Cauchetier "'His film isn’t out yet but it’s called Breathless, with Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo; they all say it’s fantastic. You should go & see it.' And I asked them, is he the guy with dark glasses? Because he’s a very strange guy." - AK

“I’m an incurable optimist and a go-getter – it’s in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.” –Colleen Moore hometownstohollywood.com/michigan/col...

New blog post! Check out my writeup on Brooklyn’s new horror bookstore, The Twisted Spine: 💙📚 😱📚 www.thegothiclibrary.com/the-twisted-...

A completely new to me noir

It's not *quite* sweater weather yet, but it IS the first day of fall. So here is lovely Kim Novak in a nice cozy-chunky sweater.

Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson after a screening of One Battle After Another at DGA. They talked about a lot of things, but since it’s the DGA it was very appropriate to pay tribute to the late Adam Somner, who AD’d for both of them, and is clearly very missed ❤️

Simone d’Aillencourt in a purple jersey dress by Donald Brooks, photographed by Henry Clarke for Vogue, June 1967

The Left Banke ~ Shadows Breaking Over My Head (Walk Away Renée / Pretty Ballerina, 1967) #NowPlaying #YheLeftBanke #MusicSky Happy Sunday night🌠 youtu.be/D_yCSNj50iI via @YouTube

Put money in your 401k during your first jobs even if it’s just a little bit. Get everything in writing.

I totally feel her pain - as someone stuck in an appeal after winning a lawsuit over something I wrote (in my case a SLAPP suit as I'm a journalist), I know how awful this can be. It's hell. Spread the word and help her if you can.

Charlie Kirk's grieving widow had just left the stage moments before the fireworks for Trump kicked off. Just so wildly and blatantly inappropriate for a memorial service for someone else. Fucking nuts.

It really truly is

The funeral for Charlie Kirk is doing more to diminish the reputations of him and his supporters than anything Jimmy Kimmel could say.

when things get too oppressive both on the timeline and in real life meatspace--seriously being squeezed in a psychic vise right now--I really appreciate this feed: bsky.app/profile/self...

Akira Kurosawa making DERSU UZALA (1975)

The prolific singer-songwriter Sonny Curtis died on Friday at age 88. Curtis had performed with Buddy Holly, opened for Elvis Presley and written hits like “I Fought the Law,” “Walk Right Back” and “Love Is All Around” — the theme song for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which he also sang.

Colleen Camp, Barbara Carrera & Larry Cohen on the set of THE WICKED STEPMOTHER. Larry Cohen's memoir "I KILLED BETTE DAVIS And Other Confessions of Heinous Crimes Committed in the Name of Moviemaking" will have photos direct from the Cohen family collection.

Remembering Gail Russell on her birthday #botd

One reason I have loved this account for years is that so many of the postcards read like story prompts. This one, with that spooky photo, is practically a movie pitch.

Baltimore’s historic drop in violent crime is motivating development in a neighborhood that has long struggled to reverse a 1970s-era decline.

The Lucy/Desi origin story. Some great songs.

working on the piece made me appreciate how sui generis kristofferson was in music and, frankly, as a human being. We’re truly lucky he existed and decided to occasionally write some of the most beautiful songs ever. This is my favorite: youtu.be/bdKFnDd1ocE?...

This is such a gorgeous piece of writing. By @elongreen.bsky.social slate.com/culture/2025...

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

I saw it last month in the Lima Film Festival and liked it very much! Loved the elegant pace of the political thriller, the period reconstruction and the framing (far from Mendonça’s usual trippy style). Moura is Oscar worthy.

Happy birthday to glorious Sophia Loren!

Robert Siodmak #Caturday

Helena Bonham Carter, just a young'un herself, poses with a kitten in 1984. #Caturday

Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.

Southern Governments Are Designed To Thwart The Policy Preferences Of Southerners, Part LXXVII

Gonna take time today to, uh, be grateful for my amendments? Gonna stop and smell the amendments? Not sure how to do this.

this is why editors are so important

Well, boycotting this slate won't exactly require sacrifice on my part. It reminds me a bit of when I was "boycotting" Kruggerrands. www.imdb.com/list/ls06653...

The Runaways

This is the way.

Trying to find a still for my little post of praise for The Secret Agent reminded me of @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's recent complaint about studio stinginess with stills. I really do tend to think it's counterproductive. You can get heartily sick of seeing the same two stills over and over.

I loved Kleber Mendonça Filho’s THE SECRET AGENT; politically trenchant and highly emotional, full of surprises. It's set to open in New York on Nov. 26 and in Los Angeles on Dec. 5, then expand nationally. I hope it finds a big audience.

That one and ONE HOUR WITH YOU are my favorites. Mamoulian and Lubitsch knew comic ability when they came across it.

Jeanette was made for Technicolor. Sweethearts is so stupid but she just radiates (and even gets her own fashion parade) The Warner Archive restoration is jaw-dropping.

Jeanette MacDonald on the set of NAUGHTY MARIETTA (1935), in which she sang "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life." I think that's her own English Sheepdog (named Captain, or Cappy) but can't ID the other. Operetta might be the least popular OH genre nowadays, but MacDonald was beautiful and a huge star.

If you ever wanted to get into Hong Kong action cinema but didn’t know where to begin (or more realisticly didn’t have any way to see a lot of what were pretty rare films), Criterion Channel has got you covered in October. It’s like a HK essentials starter pack. A ridiculously stacked selection.

We join our colleagues in @lafilmcritics.bsky.social and @nsfc.bsky.social in condemning the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air.

IN NAPERVILLE. If you're not familiar with the area, it's an eye-rollingly stereotypical commuter suburb. It has a small college, a Penzey's Spice store, and a million coffeeshops.

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Pair of Earrings https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/64398

Poster for SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE (1952) How was this artwork never used in a 1980s punk flyer? I mean, Virgina Mayo's holding up Ronald Reagan's decapitated head for God's sakes.